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Like Confessions, the new movie wears documentary trimmings. Based on the true story of Pittsburgh's Matt Cvetic, who served the FBI for nine years as an undercover agent in the Communist Party, the picture uses Communist Big Shot Gerhardt Eisler (played by Konstantin Shayne) as one of its characters, bolsters its footage with newsreel shots of the uproar and street brawls the Reds organized during 1949's Manhattan trial of eleven U.S. Communist leaders. The personal torment of the picture's hero (Frank Lovejoy), suffering the bitter contempt of his anti-Communist son and brothers without...
...found his homeland in effect a Russian colony. When Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky was proclaimed the new commander of the Polish army (TIME, Nov. 21), Poles at first could not believe the news, thought it a joke. Later, when Rokossovsky tried to address a crowd of workers in rusty, stumbling Polish, a sarcastic voice cried: "Don't be bashful, speak Russian. We are all Russians here...
...Titoist, was expelled from the Communist Party Central Committee. Vice Minister of Justice Zenon Kliszko and Minister of Construction Spychalski were also kicked out. All were denounced as "masked enemies, provocateurs, saboteurs and traitors"-a few of the epithets currently applied to Titoists by true-blue Stalinists. Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, new Soviet proconsul for Poland (TIME, Nov. 21), was elected to the purified Central Committee...
...Konstantin Rokossovsky, who only the week before had been a marshal of the Red army and a Soviet citizen, settled down in Warsaw to his new job as Marshal of Poland and Minister of National Defense. In Paris, the journal La Croix mused: "What would our Communist papers say if France were to appoint an American or ah Englishman as Minister of National Defense...
Strapping (6 ft. 4 in.), blue-eyed, blond Konstantin Rokossovsky, 52, a hard-hitting Red army field commander in World War II, had in point of fact been born in Poland. His native city, however, was not Warsaw, but the small town of Slovuta, in Volhynia, a province which for centuries has been alternately Polish and Russian. Far from being a child of the working class, he was reared at the aristocratic Nicholas Officers' School in St. Petersburg. In World War II he commanded the armies that relieved Stalingrad, crossing the Don to close a ring around the Nazis...